The Griffin Dynasty is the most ancient, powerful, vast, and internally corrupt nation in the history of The Southwestern Continent, no other comes close. In comparison, the Shaven Empire—a new empire with a history of merely a thousand years—appears as fragile as a fledgling child, despite its burgeoning display of extraordinary features, even having several elements to potentially become great, there's still a definitive gap between the two, one that is enough to make the latter despair.
As for the military, the Griffin Dynasty only needs to dispatch two standing legions to flatten the entirety of the Shaven Empire within a month.
In terms of territory, the land area of the Griffin Dynasty is seventeen times that of the Shaven Empire; if the latter were absorbed, it would at best become a mere county, and a small one at that.
